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shading them from the sun in the middle of the 

 day. Water as often as you see occasion. If your 

 plants thrive and do well, in a month or five weeks 

 more you may transplant them a second time into 

 fresh compost, which will very much encourage 

 their growth, where they may remain till August, 

 when you may plant them singly in 60-cast pots, or 

 put three round the edge of a 48, for next spring 

 bloom. Do not overcharge the saucers with water ; 

 the mould, if over watered on the top, while the 

 bottoms of the pots are standing in the water, im- 

 bibes too much moisture ; and the seed will often not 

 only rot, but the young plants will be liable to damp 

 off also. The seed never vegetates freely in very wet 

 mould; yet it should be kept moderately moist. The 

 other sowing may be made towards the middle of 

 February, or the beginning of March ; which, being 

 less liable" to be checked by frost and cold, vdll often 

 produce a better crop, and be attended with less 

 trouble than the former; though it would be too much 

 to expect, that any of the plants, raised at this latei' 

 period, will flower the following spring; the seed 

 may be sown in pots, with glasses to fit inside of the 

 rim, or in open pans, which may be placed in a frame 

 filled with tan ; for a very little moderate heat, to 

 keep up the temperature by night, for two or three 

 weeks, will make the seed vegetate sooner ; if the 

 weather should prove mild, with occasional sunshine. 



